Review of Mailbox.org: Email privacy with a thick German accent
This week, I migrated my email from FastMail, an Australian email provider hosted in the United States, to Mailbox.org, a privacy-focused email service provider hosted and…
Goodbye FastMail: Aussie government succeeds in undermining trust in Australian tech companies
I’ve been with multiple email service providers over the years, and have always used my own domain name so that I don’t get locked into any…
Gaming on Steam for Linux is more secure than on macOS and Win32
2018 have been a terrible year for computer security, and playing games on a computer isn’t all fun and games any more. In this article I’ll…
WebP image file sizes compared to equivalent Guetzli and Zopfli
I decided to offer WebP images in addition to the traditional JPEG and PNG formats after Microsoft Edge and then shortly after Mozilla Firefox added support…
Paving new paths out of dead-end blog archive page navigation
Many blog publishing platforms will generate yearly or monthly archive pages that lists the posts published in that period. However, most platforms creates dated archive pages…
Structuring WordPress’ upload directory to handle lots of files
This is a quick post about organizing WordPress’ uploads directory, wp-content/uploads, for a large number of files using a file name-derived directory structure.
Safari’s default media controls get blocked when applying a Content-Security-Policy
I recently ran into an unexpected road block trying to deploy a Content-Security-Policy on a website that relied on the native media controls provided for the…
WordPress with PHP GD’s image resize artifact-pattern problem
Up until now, I’ve been using WordPress with the PHP GD graphics library (libgd) to downscale images for thumbnails and responsive images. The resulting images haven’t…
Turkey blocks BunnyCDN, 14 000 websites and Ctrl blog inaccessible
European content delivery network (CDN) BunnyCDN is currently blocked in Turkey by major internet service providers in the country. The Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority’s…
WebP images won’t load in Microsoft Edge with Application Guard
Microsoft Edge version 18, distributed as part of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, have added support for the the high-compression-efficiency WebP image format. Unfortunately, this…